Re: Mobius... alternate Earth? Good ques
>>
>> What I meant by this
>> seemingly meaningless sentence is that the Floating
>> Island seems to represent anchient Egypt. Bunnie and
>> Antoine would be great examples of the alternate
>> socieities... but where are they from? And where on
>> Earth would that be considered the alternate of?
>>
>> Gee... looks like I came up with a subject.
>>
>> SUPER STH_at_aol.com
>>
>
>Not having seen Knuckles #1 (and I won't get the chance for another
>week), I can't very well judge the Egyptian motif. However, there do
>seem to be distinct "cultures" on Mobius, reinforced by the existence of
>variant dialects of the language. Again, the handicap is that nobody
>seems to have plotted out a comprehensive social geography of Mobius,
>let alone a physical one.
>
>'Twas ever thus. Going back to the greatest furry book ever written,
>Richard Adams' "Watership Down," you have several distinct cultures even
>within the same species: the warrens of Hazel and Fiver, of Strawberry,
>and of General Woundwort, are each different in their own way. My own
>gut reaction as an author: the various writers/artists who have has
>their hands in creating Mobius have cast around for Earth models and
>thrown them together. The burden of the fan is to see these random
>models as part of a cohesive whole when said whole never got around to
>being created. Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy!
>
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